History and Turning the Antitrust Page
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9628874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian R Cheffins (0000-0001-7417-7368, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 805-821 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007680521000453 |
| OpenAlex | W4200341085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
Present-day advocates of antitrust reform referred to as “New Brandeisians” have invoked history in pressing the case for change. The New Brandeisians bemoan the upending of a mid-twentieth-century “golden age” of antitrust by an intellectual movement known as the Chicago School. In fact, mid-twentieth-century enforcement of antitrust was uneven and large corporations exercised substantial market power. The Chicago School also was not as decisive an agent of change as the New Brandeisians suggest. Doubts about the efficacy of government regulation and concerns about foreign competition did much to foster the late twentieth-century counterrevolution that antitrust experienced
Competition (biology · Economic history · Economics · Enforcement · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Market economy · Market power · Monopoly · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Merger and Competition Analysis · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |